U.S. Highway 89 makes for an enchanting journey, celebrating natural beauty alongside neon roadside kitsch. In the epilogue, Torrence writes, “When I began photographing the Highway 89 project, I thought my subject would be the exquisite beauty of its seven national parks. Gradually…I fell in love with the small towns in between my supposed destinations. I wasn’t interested in photographing a nostalgic West that no longer existed; I wanted to show how the people I met were reinventing their Western lifestyles to retain their heritage as change encroached on their communities.”